Home Gardening Courses

Grow fresh fruit, berries and nuts efficiently and economically. Learn how to raise soil fertility, choose the best fruits for your situation, and grow them in a way which controls pests and diseases without using dangerous chemicals. Both cool and warm climate fruits are covered, and throughout the course you are given the option to concentrate your study on the types of fruits which are of more interest to youTo pick and eat fruit from your own garden is a wonderful, healthy satisfying experience. This course aims to expand your capacity to do just that.

Become the gardening expert of your family with this comprehensive home gardening course.
This course contains hundreds of pages of notes, hundreds of photos and illustrations, and (for the online & CD version) large numbers of automated self assessment tests. 
 

• How to build a vegie garden.
• Cultivation and planting.
• The main types of vegetables.
• How to make great compost.
• Pest, disease and weed control.
• Hydroponic and greenhouse growing.
• Herbs and uncommon vegetable varieties.
• Watering and irrigation systems.
• Harvesting, storing and using vegetables.

Learn how to plan, lay out and construct your own home garden. Whether you want a garden which you can work in, play in or simply look at and feel proud of then this course is for you. Topics covered include: designing gardens, styles of gardens, drawing plans, understanding soils, basic landscape construction, weeds & pests, planting & pruning, lawns & other surfacings, garden features, plus a special project to help you develop your own garden.

This course is 100% for home gardeners. While our other courses can certainly be relevant to home gardeners; they are generally considered as more oriented toward the "business" of landscaping; or those working in the industry.